The crystal stones were red and block-shaped, stacked one on top of another, revealing a demonic beauty. More than ten people were trapped inside, completely unable to move.
Su Wenwen was not very clear about Tang Yue’s ability level; if it was very strong, then the hardness of these crystal stones should be quite strong.
However, there was no time to consider these things. Seeing him snatch the detonator1 used for blasting, Su Wenwen quickly opened the window and jumped down. Using the cover of the night, she grabbed the water pipe on the outer wall with one hand, swung her body, and, before Tang Yue could touch the button, kicked him squarely on the shoulder.
Tang Yue was sent flying by the kick, and the remote control in his hand also fell, to be picked up by Su Wenwen.
“Team Leader Su, are you alright?” Everyone’s eyes showed surprise and joy upon seeing that Su Wenwen was still alive.
Su Wenwen nodded, then glanced at Tang Yue who was on the ground. The kick she had just delivered was full of force; she had absolutely no intention of letting Tang Yue catch his breath.
An ordinary person who took a kick from her would definitely have a broken bone, but just now she felt as if she had kicked an iron plate. Perhaps that kick did not cause Tang Yue any harm.
Sure enough, in just a few seconds, Tang Yue stood up rubbing his shoulder. Something seemed to have fallen from his shoulder.
Su Wenwen squinted her eyes to look carefully. It was a shattered red crystal stone… so Tang Yue had just used a crystal stone to protect his body. It seemed the opponent’s ability level was not low, and his ability control was very fine.
“I didn’t expect Team Leader Su to get out so quickly. What about Team Leader Luo?” Tang Yue patted the snow off his clothes, looked at Su Wenwen with a calm expression, and said in an extremely punchable2 tone, “Could it be that she died inside]?”
Su Wenwen believed in Luo Xi, so naturally, she would not be angered by his sarcastic and strange tone. She put the remote control into her spatial backpack; that way, no one else could get it.
Seeing her treat him like thin air, Tang Yue instead revealed a perverted smile: “I find that you’re quite interesting, much more interesting than those dull women who cater to me.”
Seeing his gaze, Su Wenwen instantly understood what he meant by that sentence. Feeling somewhat angered, the iron awl in her hand turned crimson, so red in the night that it looked like it could drip blood.
Tang Yue laughed: “You’d better not move recklessly, otherwise, your good teammates behind you won’t be able to live.”
Su Wenwen was stunned. Looking back, she saw a sharp piece of crystal stone protruding from below each person’s neck, ready to slit their throats at any moment and put a period on their young lives.
Someone cursed angrily: “Tang Yue, are you fucking sick? At a time like this, you’re not going to destroy the Mother Nest, but instead, you’re attacking your own people?”
“Who is ‘our own people’ with you? From childhood until now, I’ve only learned one thing, and that is that the weak huddle together, and the strong play with the weak.” Tang Yue spread his hands. “When the Mother Nest forms a zombie tide, it’s the weak who will die the most. For ability users, the chance of survival is still quite large.”
“But, if all the weak die, it’s not a good thing for the strong either. My goal from beginning to end has only been Su Wenwen and Luo Xi. If you all stand on my side, then you are my own people. After this is done, you will obtain far more power than you have now.”
After hearing this, everyone was somewhat dumbfounded, and then someone roared: “Your grandpa’s3, people are about to be wiped out, and you’re still thinking about power! We just want to live with our families.”
This mission was extremely dangerous, yet they were able to participate in the operation without hesitation, unafraid of life and death, all for their families and friends. How could it be for power? Tang Yue was not on the same path as them; they could not share a common understanding.
Just at this moment, one person’s ability suddenly erupted. The cement ground cracked inch by inch, and soil shot up from the fine cracks, looking as if a sandstorm had been kicked up. It slowly gathered around the trapped personnel, enveloping them.
All of this happened extremely quickly.
Tang Yue raised his hand to control the crystal stones to stab at their necks, but by this time it was already too late to kill them, because Su Wenwen had raised her iron awl and was swinging it over.
The scorching temperature of that iron awl made his heart palpitate. He could no longer care about the others and enveloped himself in crystal stones. The iron awl struck down, and the crystal stones shattered, the shock forcing him back several steps.
Only he himself knew the hardness of the crystal stones; they could at least resist the impact of a car crashing at one hundred and fifty kilometers per hour. He never expected Su Wenwen to break through the protection with just a single strike.
Sweat appeared on Tang Yue’s forehead.
Su Wenwen’s figure was incomparably ghostly. She walked without a sound, like a gust of gentle wind, and quickly closed in on Tang Yue again. The iron awl grazed past his face. Although it did not touch him, the extremely high temperature caused the skin on his cheek to form a burn.
Tang Yue let out a great cry, having almost been headshot. The fear of death caused his ability to output crazily, and crystal stones grew out from all directions.
Su Wenwen dodged left and right, the iron awl being swung with such force it created a gust of wind, shattering the sharp crystal stones time and time again.
Not long after lying on the ground, the shattered crystal stones seemed to come alive and move, then gathered and bonded together to form long, thin spikes, shooting towards Su Wenwen.
No matter how agile Su Wenwen was, it was very difficult to avoid such a dense attack. She could only protect the vital parts of her body. Her shoulder blades, legs, and abdomen were pierced into the semblance of a hedgehog. Dripping fresh blood stained her white cold-proof suit, and even her dodging movements became obviously much slower.
Seeing this, Tang Yue couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. He raised his hand and condensed a massive crystal stone, smashing it down towards Su Wenwen. Su Wenwen raised her hands to protect her head. With a “dong,” she was smashed to the ground, her arms hanging powerlessly, abnormally twisted.
“To think that even Doctor Liu couldn’t beat you, I see that he’s nothing special after all.” Tang Yue had competed with Doctor Liu before. He basically couldn’t sense Doctor Liu’s presence and could only use crystal stones to protect his body. Fortunately, Doctor Liu’s attack power was not high, so the result of their confrontation was a draw.
But with Doctor Liu’s ability, he was equivalent to a nighttime assassin. Dealing with Su Wenwen, whose defense was not high, should have been very easy.
But he was actually counter-killed. This could only mean that Doctor Liu was too useless, which was why he was in a bit of a sorry state today.
But the sneer on Tang Yue’s face soon froze. He watched in horror as Su Wenwen climbed up from a pool of blood. Her twisted hands had healed at some unknown time, and she was pulling out the crystal stones embedded in her body one by one.
The cold wind brushed past his neck, raising goosebumps all over his body. He subconsciously retreated a few steps, trembling all over as if he had seen a ghost: “How… is this possible?”
Su Wenwen’s wounds were no longer bleeding, but the bloodstains would not disappear. The snow-white cold-proof suit looked as if it had been soaked in blood, a terrifying red.
That pair of eyes seemed to be able to burst forth with a red glow in the dark night. Tang Yue screamed in fright and mobilized all of his ability. Many crystal stones appeared in mid-air, surrounding Su Wenwen.
“Go to hell, you monster!”
The crystal stones were like a torrential downpour, their momentum vast and mighty, like a thousand horses and ten thousand soldiers. Su Wenwen’s slender figure appeared small and weak in comparison.
But there was no fear in her eyes. She charged towards Tang Yue against the rain of crystal stones. After the heavy iron awl struck and shattered a crystal stone, it would burst forth with a dazzling spark. Then, she split the iron awl in two, her hands weaving back and forth in a dance.
The crystal stones were shattered, one after another. Tang Yue looked at her pair of cold, indifferent eyes, and saw that her abdomen and legs were clearly pierced by crystal stones, yet she still did not retreat, as if the body was not hers and she could not feel pain, exactly like a monster.
Tang Yue was so scared that he retreated again and again, especially after seeing the iron awls dancing before his eyes, his legs went weak and he knelt on the ground.
Looking at that pair of emotionless eyes, a chill rose from the bottom of Tang Yue’s heart. He realized that this feeling was killing intent. She was going to kill him, and without any hesitation.
“Wait a minute…”
Tang Yue had read Su Wenwen’s file and knew that she was kind-hearted. When facing people who were wicked beyond redemption, as long as she wasn’t pushed to the brink, she would generally let them fend for themselves. One could say she had great potential to be a Holy Mother4. As long as he opened his mouth to admit his mistake and negotiate terms, perhaps he could survive.
But…
Why couldn’t he say the following words?
Tang Yue’s eyes glanced down. An iron awl had already pierced his throat. The surrounding muscles and skin were already seared, and he could even smell his own flesh cooking.
His body subconsciously needed to breathe, so it twitched a few times, but he couldn’t draw a single breath. The feeling of suffocation made his tears flow uncontrollably.
I want to live…
But Su Wenwen had already raised her hand and stabbed the other iron awl into his forehead.
“Cough, cough.“
Seeing that he was thoroughly dead, Su Wenwen relaxed, and the blood in her lungs was coughed up. She casually wiped the corner of her mouth, pulled out all the crystal stones from her body, and used a system item to heal her wounds.
Only then did she shatter the crystal stones trapping the others one by one. Fortunately, the earth-element ability user had tightly wrapped everyone in soil, so no one was injured.
“Team Leader Su is so strong!” Everyone sincerely admired Su Wenwen, especially the scene of the fight just now, which was simply inspiring. However, seeing her face deathly pale as she stared at the corpse on the ground, they turned to ask with concern, “Is Team Leader Su alright?”
Su Wenwen shook her head. She was worried about Luo Xi and didn’t want to say too much to others about her own abilities, so she said, “Team Leader Luo is still inside, I have to go back and find her. You all return to the base first and report the situation here.”
“How can we do that? We want to rescue Team Leader Luo with Team Leader Su. Only one person is needed to go back to the base.” One of them said, pointing to another person, “He was bitten by a zombie when he and I went to search the supermarket just now. Although he took the antidote in time, it’s still better for him to go back to the lab for a check-up.”
Su Wenwen nodded and did not object.
Going through the main entrance felt unnecessary and a waste of time. So, Su Wenwen formulated a plan with everyone, calculated the remaining explosives, and then decided to go through a window.
Holding a rope, she stepped on the wall, grabbed onto protruding objects, and in a few leaps, she reached the fourth-floor position. She shattered the window and climbed in, then threw the rope down, pulling her team members up one by one.
The reason Su Wenwen chose this room was that it had not yet been eroded by the Mother Nest. A slight gap was visible under the tightly closed door, and a bit of the soft wall had crept in.
The team members installed an explosive in this room, and only then did they open the door. The corridor was completely occupied by the soft wall. Slashing it with a knife felt just like cutting into flesh.
They used all their strength to cut it open bit by bit, creating an opening, and then they squeezed inside one by one.
“The communicators don’t work in here. If anyone accidentally gets separated, don’t hesitate, retreat immediately,” Su Wenwen said.
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